E X C A L I B U R

  What is it?
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  Excalibur is a collection of often-needed reusable components. It includes tools for
  threading, pooling, datasources, CLI option parsing and more.

  Where is it?
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  http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon

  Requirements
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  -JDK1.2 or above
  -To build from CVS you must set JAVA_HOME to the jdk dir (eg:/usr/bin/jdk1.2 or
   c:\jdk1.3)
  -To build Informix drivers you need version 2.2 of the JDBC driver
  -To build J2EE client for connections you need JNDI and the JDBC extensions

  Does it pass it's internal tests?
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  You can browse the results of our unit testing in the filesystem.  If this is
  a distribution, the results should be in docs/test.  Point your browser at the
  index.html file and browse away.  If you want to generate the tests and run them
  for yourself, you need to check this project out from CVS and the "jakarta-avalon"
  project (which has the libraries to build everything).  After that, you can type
  "./build.sh test" for UNIX or "build test" for Windows.